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MAKING SHAPELY FICTION

by Stern, Jerome

ISBN13: 9780393029291
ISBN10: 0393029298
Additional ISBN(s): 9780393321241
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 1991-03-01
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Summary

This book is different from other books on writing. You can start writing serious fiction from the first page -- because, as Jerome Stern makes clear, learning to write spontaneously is the first step to writing well. As you begin to grasp the principle of momentum, tension and immediacy, you'll find your fiction has shape and form. You'll discover how to "write what you know," and avoid the traps and pitfalls awaiting fledgeling authors. A cross-referenced Alphabet for Writers includes incisive entries for such writerly concerns as Anti-Heroes, Dialogue, Sex, and Style. Whether you're a beginning, a seasoned professional, or a teacher of the craft, you already know there are no rules in writing ficton . . .but Jerome Stern will inspire you to find your personal path.

What This Book Does and Why

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

PART I THE SHAPES OF FICTION

Facade

(3)

Juggling

(4)

Iceberg

(3)

Last Lap

(3)

Trauma

(3)

Specimen

(4)

Gathering

(2)

A Day in the Life

(3)

Onion

(3)

Journey

(4)

Visitation

(3)

Aha!

(5)

Bear at the Door

(3)

Snapshot

(3)

Blue Moon

(4)

Explosion

(6)

PART II A CAUTIONARY INTERLUDE

Write What You Know

(4)

Don't Do This: A Short Guide to What Not to Do

(14)

PART III FROM ACCURACY TO ZIGZAG: AN ALPHABET FOR WRITERS OF FICTION

Accuracy

(2)

Advice

(1)

Allegory

(1)

Allusion

(1)

Ambiguity

(1)

Anti-hero

(3)

Archetype

(1)

Atmosphere

(1)

Avant-garde

(1)

Bathos

(1)

Beginnings

(2)

Catharsis

(2)

Character

(4)

Cliche

100

(4)

Cliff-hanger

104

(1)

Coincidence

105

(1)

Comedy

106

(2)

Convention

108

(1)

Crisis

109

(1)

Description

110

(3)

Dialect

113

(1)

Dialogue

114

(6)

Diction

120

(1)

Didacticism

121

(1)

Documents/Diaries/Letters

122

(2)

Endings

124

(3)

Epigram

127

(1)

Epilogue

127

(1)

Epiphany

127

(1)

Episode

128

(1)

Exposition

129

(2)

Fable

131

(1)

Fairy Tale

131

(1)

Farce

132

(1)

Flashback

133

(1)

Formula

134

(1)

Frame Story

135

(2)

Freytag's Pyramid

137

(1)

Genre

138

(1)

Grotesque

139

(1)

Hero

139

(1)

Imagery

140

(2)

Imagination

142

(1)

Immediacy

143

(2)

Interior Monologue

145

(2)

Intrigant

147

(1)

Irony

148

(2)

Legend

150

(1)

Local Color

150

(2)

Melodrama

152

(1)

Metafiction

152

(1)

Metaphor and Simile

153

(1)

Mise-en-scene

154

(1)

Motif

155

(1)

Myth

156

(1)

Names

157

(2)

Narrative

159

(1)

Narrator

160

(3)

Naturalism

163

(2)

Negative Positive Knowledge

165

(1)

Novel

166

(2)

Objective Correlative

168

(1)

Parable

169

(1)

Parody

169

(2)

Pathetic Fallacy

171

(1)

Picaro

171

(1)

Places and Place Names

172

(2)

Plot

174

(3)

Poetic Justice

177

(1)

Point of View

178

(14)

Position

192

(3)

Premise

195

(2)

Profanity / Obscenity

197

(1)

Psychic Distance

198

(1)

Reading

199

(1)

Realism

200

(3)

Red Herring

203

(1)

Resolution

204

(1)

Revision

204

(2)

Roman a Clef

206

(1)

Romance

207

(2)

Satire

209

(2)

Scene

211

(1)

Science Fiction

212

(1)

Sentimentality

212

(2)

Sex

214

(1)

Short Novel

215

(1)

Short Story

216

(2)

Showing and Telling

218

(2)

Stereotype

220

(1)

Stories within Stories

221

(1)

Stream of Consciousness

222

(1)

Structure

223

(1)

Style

224

(8)

Subtlety

232

(1)

Suspense

233

(1)

Suspension of Disbelief

234

(1)

Symbolism

235

(2)

Tension

237

(2)

Texture

239

(1)

Theme

240

(1)

Title

241

(2)

Tour de Force

243

(1)

Transitions

243

(3)

Trust Your Material

246

(1)

Voice

247

(2)

Workshops

249

(5)

Zigzag

254

PART IV READABLES: WHERE TO LEARN MORE

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